Why Literature Matters

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 16.02.08

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale and Background Information
  3. Objectives
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Teacher Resources
  7. Bibliography
  8. Appendix: Incorporating Common Core State Standards
  9. Endnotes

Reading One Another: Fostering Passion and Identity Growth through African-American Literature

Robert McKinnon Schwartz

Published September 2016

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Endnotes

  1. ”Cooperative High School”
  2. N. Katherine Hayles, “How We Read: Close, Hyper, Machine,” 62.
  3. Ibid., 66.
  4. Mary-Virginia Feger, “I Want to Read,” 18.
  5. “Biography: Jacob Lawrence (1917 – 2000),”
  6. “Prints, Drawings, and Photographs: Artist: Jacob Lawrence, American, 1917 – 2000, Workshop.”
  7. “Nella Larsen,” Black History Now.
  8. Excerpt from Nella Larsen, Passing, The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader.
  9. Mark Gaipa, ”’A Creative Psalm of Brotherhood,’”280.
  10. Ibid., 281.
  11. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
  12. Gaipa, 280.
  13. James Baldwin. The Fire Next Time.
  14. Ibid., 21.
  15. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
  16. H. Jack Geiger. “Rachel and Her Children.”
  17. Cristina Vischer Bruns. Why Literature?
  18. Ibid., 26.
  19. Gaipa, 281.
  20. Baldwin, 18.
  21. Adapted from Abrams, M.H. The Mirror and the Lamp for Why Literature Matters, Yale National Initiative Seminar. Seminar Leader: Janice Carlisle.

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